G for Going Global. Big B’s appearance in The Great Gatsby, Vidya and Nandita Das’s presence on Cannes Jury (separate categories), Priyanka Chopra’s music video feat. Pitbull, and being chosen as the GUESS ambassador, Spielberg, De Niro, Sharon Stone arrive in India to be part of literary events and social causes.

H for Heroesare the new villains. Akshay, Ranveer, Neil, John Abraham, Aamir played the bad guy with élan.

Q for ‘Quote se Court Tak’ – Everything Bollywood said or did hit headlines. SRK was pulled up for plagiarizing speech, Mallika called India “a regressive country for women” during an interview, Cast of Ram-Leela was booked for vulgarity, Munnabhai was convicted by TADA, legal dispute over Zanjeer copyright, Salman Khan was booked for hurting religious sentiments of Muslims in BB7.

R for Rise of the Zombies. Go Goa Gone gave Bollywood its first ZomCom, entertained and taught a lesson or few.

S for Shuddh desi sets. While some filmmakers shot at real locations – Jaipur, Delhi, Kolkatta, some others took creative liberties and used the nearest hill station to symbolize another locale. For better part to fit, using live shots than sets, couple filmmakers showed how it’s done.

T for Tweet tales. Salman vented about bad customer care for his luxury car, Hrithik went online with his proclamation of love, celebs wrote in support of social issues, Bollywood ranted, raved, patted each other’s backs, dominated the platform personifying the term ‘lil birdie told us’ to the T..

U for Underworld drama.David, OUATIMD, D-day, Shootout at Wadala, the fascination with gangsters and their lives continued.

W for We have learnt GHANTA. Past 12 months in 2013, hardly anything seems to have evolved in Bollywood. Remakes, sequels, formulaic films won some, lost some, not much significant to write about. Same old, same ‘ol!

X for X-files. Separations, divorces made for ugly headlines while some exes’ let bygones be just that and delivered blockbusters.

Y for ‘Your’s truly’ signed open letters. Katrina wrote one to the media for intruding on her privacy. Media wrote another to Ranbir for misbehaving. (for related or unrelated reasons).

Z for Zinda. The BMB track!TheLootera track! plus also to revel our survival of another year at the cinemas. Yay!